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Nov. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 24, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
You know, just to show you how screwed up I've been the last 12 hours, I've been thinking about Janet Reno.
Yeah.
I know.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too.
No, I was just thinking, say what you want about Janet Reno, she just sent the tanks into these airports the moment she heard the kids getting molested.
She burned down the Branch Davidian compound when she found out what was going on in the air.
Greetings, folks, and welcome.
It's great to have you here.
It's our annual Thanksgiving show hosted by me, El Rushbo, and this is the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number, 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushbow at EIVNet.com.
The regime today, ecstatic over the unemployment numbers.
Now, I'm sorry to have to do this, but I have the truth about economic news.
It's not good.
And I'm debating whether or not to even mention it here day before Thanksgiving, but it is what it is.
As usual, we are going to have the true story of Thanksgiving in our final hour.
That'll be the 2 to 3 p.m. Eastern Time hour on the program today.
And also, the general suggestion.
Now, I know many of you, as we speak, are in the family sedan, headed to a destination.
You're either headed to a shopping mall, a grandmother's house, wherever you're going.
Some of you decided to avoid flying because of the groping going on out there.
If you are in the car, you probably have your crumb crunchers in there with you.
And every year, people warn me.
Now, Russia got to be real careful here because families in the car are going to be real, real careful.
Oh, no.
In fact, I would suggest most of you probably have your kids in the car.
You got some kind of video apparatus for them to watch whatever in the back of the car while you listen to this program.
I would suggest turn off the video apparatus and let all of your kids in the car listen to this program as well as with you.
The time will fly.
There won't be, are we there yet?
Are we there?
Won't be any of that.
The kids will be mesmerized because we're going to have a true story of Thanksgiving.
We're going to talk about how scientists are now suggesting climate change will ruin Thanksgiving dinner.
This is from the Discovery Channel.
I kid you not.
We have updates on all the groping going on.
And as I said yesterday, it really isn't that much.
It's not happening that much, but what is happening is being amplified.
There is a concerted effort here to get this news out there.
CNN has a story here headlined, despite attention.
It's not all grab and scan at the airports.
Dennis Gossard is fine with the enhanced techniques at U.S. airports.
He said that security agents are welcome to pat him down all they want if it keeps air travel safe.
So here is CNN doing the bidding of the regime, a guy willing and happy to give up his freedom for what he thinks is a little security.
Willing to sacrifice his freedom for the first stages of a police state.
He said, this guy's 63 years old.
He's from Glendale, California.
He was speaking in Atlanta, flew in there to Hartsfield Jackson Airport.
Said, they can pat me down for three hours if it's going to save somebody's life.
From the volume of the public outcry, as enhanced measures have been rolled out at more airports this month, you might think Americans were getting groped right and left.
But the TSA estimates that less than 3% of air travelers will receive enhanced pat-downs, which some travelers have called groping or worse.
So it is not widespread, but there is controversy attached to it.
And, you know, the regime and the media work in tandem to make this look like it is happening all over the place, worldwide, nationwide, happening every time somebody goes through the scanners.
Yet, we haven't had any reports today.
And this is the busiest travel day of the year.
And we haven't had any horror stories today.
We're supposed to get delays.
And, well, one thing, Spirit Airlines' computer system crashed.
But nothing to do with the TSA.
You know, you speaking of all this, I just, I was thinking about Janet Reno.
I was also thinking about Obama and Arizona.
This is the same bunch groping us that finds it an outrage to ask illegal immigrants in Arizona for their papers.
So it's clear here that there's something going on.
The American people being targeted for some objective here.
And I think a lot of it is to see what we'll put up with.
Because this is not security.
This is not about security.
This is searching for things.
This is not searching for terrorists.
The people that care, the Council on Arab Islamic Relations, whatever it is, has sent out a press release suggesting that Muslims pat themselves down at the airports.
Don't let anybody else do it.
Muslims are to pat themselves down, then report what they find.
No, I'm not joking.
I don't think I printed it out.
I read it because I thought, you know, I better not even go there.
I better not even talk about that.
Here I find myself talking about it.
I didn't print it out.
But yeah, they're supposed to pat themselves down and then tell the agents what they find.
And that's what they're being advised to do.
That it is what it is.
The TSA, you got to look at these guys.
I mean, they're just, they're just doing what your average high school guy does on his first date, seeing how far they can go.
And just, it's really no more complicated than that.
First base, second base, triple home run.
There is a woman out there suggesting she was targeted because of her big breasts.
But how does she really know that?
Another woman is suing some company for firing her because she's too hot.
And she said she was told that her big breasts are a distraction to people in the office.
Nothing to do with the TSA here.
I saw a picture of the woman who claims that she's too hot.
Well, I mean, to each his own, I mean, you know, there are people who think the guy in the bowling alley in the two-tone green leisure suit looks good.
So it takes all kinds.
And if you have enough confidence to think you're hot and getting fired because your boobs are too big and a distraction, more power to you.
You know, the other day, I sort of chided Motor Trend magazine for jumping on this bandwagon of the Chevrolet Vault.
And the guy at MotorTrend has responded to me very nastily.
So I should drive one.
I probably have never seen one.
I should ask General Motors for a loaner.
They'd probably give me one for a weekend, but I probably couldn't fit in it.
Well, the thing is, I have seen a Vault.
I've seen a Vault.
They showed me a Vault.
After it was on the assembly line, I took a trip to Michigan and spent a long afternoon with Bob Lutz, a general boat.
They showed me the Vault.
I saw the thing.
They showed me how it was going to work.
I read how it's going to work.
40 miles to the charge and 375 miles on the backup gasoline engine.
And they've reviewed this.
It's not even on sale.
You can't even go buy it.
And yet it's the car of all the cars out there.
I just, I find it strange.
I've always thought, can consumer reports be bought off?
Because some of the things that they say are the best value.
You know, as a consumer, I'm well-versed on this stuff.
And this isn't the case.
And there's some people that think, not me, I'm not saying they have.
But I read the comments to the story on the Motor Trend.
There are some people who think that MotorTrend's been bought off by somebody to promote this thing, General Motors, General Electric, or what have you.
Speaking of all this, President Obama, did I, and I called this one, President Obama's administration has bought almost 25% of the Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company hybrid cars sold since he took office, accelerating federal purchases as consumer demand wanes.
In fact, the headlines of Bloomberg story, Obama bolsters U.S. hybrid automobile sales in waning consumer market.
Nobody wants one.
Hardly anybody wants one.
And so the regime is out there buying them for itself so that other members of the regime can run around and drive these cars.
The General Services Administration, which runs the regime's fleet, bought at least 14,584 hybrids in the past two fiscal years, or about 10% of the 145,000 cars the agency purchased in that period.
This, according to sales data obtained by Bloomberg, under a Freedom of Information Act request in fiscal 2008, hybrids accounted for less than 1% of government purchases.
It was up to 10%.
Now, it's up to 25%.
The government is boosting investment in a technology that has failed to win broad acceptance after more than a decade in the marketplace.
You could look everywhere.
I love the example.
You ever get a discount buying an iPhone?
A discount buying an iPad.
Does Apple have to pay you to go out and buy one of their products?
Well, the Volt, they're going to pay you half of what it costs you in a form of a credit.
And the other hybrid deals, the government's buying them up to make it look like there's volume purchases.
And in the case of GM, Obama's just buying the cars from himself.
The consumer demand just isn't there for these cars.
And then they're having to trump it up.
And they're going to force us into these cars if they have the time.
And if they have the wherewithal.
Jeff Schuster, the director of forecasting at J.D. Power and associates in Troy, Michigan, said at some point, the reality is that for this technology to be accepted, it needs to be done without a government crutch, but without a huge gas price increase or further government demand, the natural demand just isn't going to be there.
Now, about 3,100 of the hybrids purchased by the regime were paid for out of the porculus package.
So the regime bought its own hybrids from the Porculus deal spending in one pocket and out the other.
This is the beginning, said Sarah Merriam, spokeswoman for the GSA, in an interview.
Another 5,600 hybrids were bought with proceeds from selling older cars in the regime fleet.
She said a majority of fiscal 2009 hybrid sales came after Obama took office in January 2009.
So there you have it.
Very popular technology, so popular that the government is buying 25% of these things, a waning consumer market.
And we will have the story on could climate change ruin Thanksgiving dinner.
Also the truth of the economic news that is being reported or actually not being reported in great detail at the True Story of Thanksgiving and also the true story.
You know, there's a story out there about how the American, well, the pilgrims, who are the screwed the Indians, buying Manhattan Island.
It's not true.
We got shafted.
Yep.
We got shafted.
Found this in a book on Teddy Roosevelt.
We got shafted when we bought Manhattan.
It was, I was caught Manahattan Island at the time, Mana-Hatton, Manahattan.
This is a tribute to Jesse Jackson, who was never going to be able to pronounce the name of the island correctly, Manahattan.
They just called it that then hundreds of years before Jesse Jackson was born in homage, knowing he was coming.
He was at Selba as well.
It turns out that the $24 we paid was to an Indian tribe in Long Island that did not own Manahattan.
We got scammed.
We had to come back and buy Manahattan from the true owners, and we didn't pay $24 for it.
We got hosed.
We paid for Manahattan twice because a bunch of Native Americans scammed us from Long Island.
They didn't own it.
They sold it to us and they sold us the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yeah, we bought it all, hook, line, and sicker.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
El Rushbo, behind this, the Golden EIB microphone.
Very simple solution to the TSA putting its hands in people's underwear.
Don't wear any.
Don't wear any.
I know people that don't wear any underwear.
I mean, if you don't wear any underwear, end up creating a special line for people like you.
Probably is the commando line, yeah, absolutely, the commando line, and a separate, maybe a separate bar.
Airport gets wind of this, they'll set up a separate bar for people traveling.
Commander, there's all kinds of ways to deal with the regime on this.
Here is the CARE Travel Advisory Press Release: special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab.
Instead of the pat down, you can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area, and have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands.
And of course, if you find anything in your headscarf, by all means, tell people what you found in there.
I was not making it up.
From the Discovery Channel, climate change could one day affect the cost and quality of dishes traditionally served for Thanksgiving Day dinner.
Suggests a recent paper in the journal Food Research International.
Pasta, I'm sorry, pasty, dry turkey meat, along with expensive fruits, vegetables, and potatoes, could be on the horizon if more variable extremes and regional weather patterns continue as a likely result of the fraud of climate change, indicates the author Neville Gregory.
Well, we do know that thanks to putting ethanol in the gasoline turkeys will cost more, as well as corn, maize, popcorn.
By the way, Obama pardoned the turkey today.
And he had little girls out there.
His two daughters are out there.
They pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey.
No word on whether or not the turkey pardoned Obama.
Now, the usual star of the Thanksgiving Day feast is a roast turkey.
And according to this nutcase, it could suffer in quality as a result of climate change.
Climate change could affect meat quality in two ways, said Neville Gregory, a professor in animal welfare physiology at the University of London's Royal Veterinary College.
So here we've got a guy that teaches people how to be vets at an animal welfare physiology class talking to us about climate change, how it's going to screw up turkeys.
He said, first, there are the direct effects on organ and muscle metabolism during heat exposure, which can persist after slaughter.
So we slaughter the turkeys, but because of climate change, global warming, and all this heat, organ and muscle metabolism will continue.
And take what was a juicy bird, make it dry and pasty.
Prior studies, yes, people have been studying this.
Prior studies have demonstrated that heat stress can increase the risks of what's known as pale, soft, exudative meat.
According to Purdue University animal scientists, pale, soft, exudative meat, P-S-E, is characterized by its pale color, lack of firmness, and fluid dripping from its cut surfaces.
When cooked, the meat lacks the juiciness of normal meat.
All of this on the horizon due to the fraud of climate change.
As a second climate change impact, said Neville Gregory, changes in livestock and poultry management practices in response to hazards that stem from climate change could indirectly lead to changes in meat quality.
I'm not kidding you.
I'm not making this on Thanksgiving Eve.
Here comes a big story from the Discovering Channel on how climate change will destroy Thanksgiving meal.
You're kidding me.
Obama has an official Thanksgiving proclamation.
Obama has an official Thanksgiving proclamation.
I'm going to read George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving proclamation today.
I've just been told that Obama has one.
And here's how his begins.
A beloved American tradition, Thanksgiving Day offers us the opportunity to focus our thoughts on the grace that has been extended to our people and our country.
This spirit brought together the newly arrived pilgrims and the Wampanawag tribe who had been living and thriving around Plymouth, Massachusetts for thousands of years.
In an autumn harvest feast centuries ago, this Thanksgiving Day, we reflect on the compassion and contributions of Native Americans whose skill in agriculture helped the early economists and colonists survive and whose rich culture continues to add to our nation's heritage at their casinos and on their reservations.
I added the last.
He didn't say casinos and reservations.
We also pause our normal pursuits on this day and join in a spirit of fellowship and gratitude for the year's bounties and blessings.
He also mentions Washington's proclamation in passing.
Amidst the uncertainty of a fledgling experiment in democracy, President George Washington declared the first Thanksgiving in America, recounting the blessings of tranquility, union, and plenty that shined upon our country.
Look at, I am not making this up.
The whole, the myth of the first Thanksgiving, Obama is cementing it in stone here.
This Thanksgiving Day, we reflect on the compassion and contributions of Native Americans whose skill in, this is, this has got to be a parody.
Somebody is toying with me.
Somebody is seeing if they can get one past me.
Somebody's trying to take advantage of me being not as focused on the day before Thanksgiving and falling for this prank.
Because somebody has sent me supposedly the presidential Thanksgiving proclamation written by Obama.
It actually says, this Thanksgiving Day, we reflect on the compassion and contributions of Native Americans whose skill in agriculture helped the early colonists survive and whose rich culture continues to add to our nation's heritage.
This spirit brought together by the newly arrived pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe who had been living and thriving around Plymouth for thousands of years.
So we were the invaders.
The Indians are minding their own business.
We were incompetent idiots.
We didn't know how to feed ourselves, so they came along and showed us how, and that's what Thanksgiving is all about.
He says nothing about the Constitution in his Thanksgiving proclamation because he's got a problem with it.
He also says this, this harvest season, we are also reminded of those experiencing the pangs of hunger or the hardship of economic insecurity.
Let us return the kindness and generosity we have seen throughout the year by helping our fellow citizens weather the storms of our day, primarily brought on by me.
Now that, if that's part of it, then I'm going to maybe think that this actually is Obama's Thanksgiving Day proclamation.
And I thought I was being hoaxed.
I really thought I was being scammed.
I thought somebody taking advantage of me here, thinking I'm not all that here, not all that focus the day before Thanksgiving, focusing on getaway day.
I try to get a phony Obama Thanksgiving proclamation passed me.
But there it is.
It's from the whitehouse.gov website.
Every cliché that is wrong about Thanksgiving shows up in his proclamation.
The Indians show up at Plymouth.
No, the pilgrims show up at Plymouth.
The Indians have been there for thousands of years.
We get off the boats.
We don't know how to feed ourselves.
The Indians show us how.
They share their skill in agriculture, which held the early colonists survive, and whose rich culture continues to add to our nation's heritage.
Is it possible he believes it?
I have no doubt that he believes it.
And even if he doesn't believe it, he wants everybody else to believe it.
But in his country, you remember, in Obama, Obama believes that this nation fatally flawed since its founding, even before its founding.
So it stands to reason.
Well, you know, I know a lot of people did not hear the true story of Thanksgiving until I wrote it in my book in the early 90s.
I can remember Snirdley and H.R. were stunned when they heard the first story of Thanksgiving, the real story, because we'd all been taught a variation of the Indian saved us.
We had to draw pictures of it in school.
That's exactly right.
The art projects of the Indians saving us.
So anyway, I have George Washington's original proclamation here.
And we'll share that with you as the program unfolds.
Three environmental groups have sued the EPA, did it yesterday to force the EPA to prevent lead poisoning of wildlife from spent ammunition and lost fishing tackle.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by the Center for Biological Diversity, public employees for environmental responsibility, and the hunters group, Project Gut Pile.
It comes after the EPA denied their petition to ban lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle, which the group says killed 10 million to 20 million birds and other animals a year by lead poisoning.
10 to 20 million birds and other animals a year dead from lead poisoning.
Have you seen the bodies?
Have you ever seen the body of a dead pelican that died of natural causes?
When you're traversing the woods, do you see the dead body of a bird?
Do you see it?
I asked myself this once along.
I have never seen this.
I've never found the carcass of anything that died of natural causes.
Naturally, you're out there hunting and you shoot something, obviously you're going to see it.
But walking through the woods on the way to grandma's house or whatever you're doing out there, I have never seen it.
I've always been mesmerized.
Animals, when they die, they know it and they seek refuge.
They do things that we don't understand.
But 10 to 20 million birds due to lead poisoning because of fishing tackle and spent ammunition.
It made me wonder, how did the pilgrims, how did the early American, how did the Indians, how did the Native Americans prosper in this country?
Without OSHA making sure the work environment was safe, without a Department of Natural Resources providing them licenses to hunt and fish?
Do you realize the Native Indians, Native Americans and pilgrims just went out there and they started shooting?
They didn't have gun licenses.
They didn't have to do like John Kerry, go to Iowa and say, can I get me a hunting license here?
They just went out there and fired.
They just went out and fished.
Didn't have to ask permission.
How did they prosper without the EPA giving them permits to build fires and making sure that waste was disposed of properly?
How did this happen?
How did our ancestors get by?
There was no EPA.
There was no OSHA, no Department of Natural Resources.
The FDA was not there to inspect the food that they did prepare for themselves.
How did they survive?
And who knows?
You know, when people got sick, you go to the medicine man in the Indian tribe and he whoops up a concoction, gives it to you, your kid, or whatever, without FDA approval.
How did this happen?
How did these people survive without all of these wonderful government bureaucracies looking out for them?
And where was the Fish and Wildlife Service back then issuing permits and licenses so people could run their businesses of trading extra food?
I mean, they didn't eat all they produced.
They had to do something with it, sell it, give it away, cross state lines.
I mean, who was there to police any of this?
And last but not least, how did they possibly, despite all this, how'd they get along without any community organizers?
Do you ever ask yourself that?
Probably not.
That's why I'm hosting your listening.
But how many pilgrims, how many Native Americans got by without professional community organizers?
And finally, this, if the indigenous people's lifestyle, the Native Americans' lifestyle was so great, why are we punishing tobacco use?
They're the ones who turned us onto the stuff in the West Indies and down in Cuba.
They were at one with the nature.
So these are the kind of questions I have.
I just don't know how anybody survived without all of these government bureaucracies and agencies doing the best they can to look out for us and look out for the animals.
I mean, you know, back in the old days, when the pilgrims are running around shooting Bambi and Turkey, you know, who was looking out to make sure they didn't overkill?
I think they did it on their own, except the Indians kind of lost track with the buffalo now and then, but they somehow got by without all these agencies.
It's amazing, isn't it?
I got another question.
How did the Indians shoot the pilgrims?
How did the Indians teach the pilgrims how to shoot game when the Indians didn't have guns?
Don't forget, it was white European settlers that brought guns and horses and syphilis and racism, environmental destruction.
How did this happen?
How did we brought guns?
The Indians didn't have them.
How did the Indians teach us to shoot game?
That would be wild animals for those of you and you know this in Rio Linda.
Never mind.
How many of you listeners, let me just ask you a question.
How many of you are celebrating Native American or Indian Thanksgiving?
Now, from Wikipedia or Wikipedia, The National Day of Mourning.
The National Day of Mourning is an annual protest organized since 1970 by American Indians of New England on the fourth Thursday of November, the same day as Thanksgiving in the United States.
It coincides with an unrelated but similar protest on Thanksgiving Day held out on the left coast.
So that's also going on today, and I just want to make sure that you knew about that.
The organizers consider the National Holiday of Thanksgiving Day as a reminder of the perceived democide and continued suffering of the Native American peoples.
Participants in the National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today.
They want to educate Americans about history.
The event was organized in a period of Native American activism and general cultural protests.
It's organized by the United American Indians of New England.
Now, democide.
Genocide, democide.
Let's check the scoreboard.
How many Native Americans were killed by the arrival of the white man through disease and war?
Right now, I know you're not going to like hearing this, folks, but we're checking the scoreboard here.
Supposedly, there was a democide out there.
The white man showed up, and the Indians and Native Americans started dropping out there.
And we killed them.
Horrible.
You've seen the movies.
All right.
What's the number?
How many Native Americans, how many Indians were killed by the arrival of the white men through disease and war?
And how many people have died since the white man arrived here due to lung cancer thanks to the Indian invented custom of smoking tobacco?
Who are the real killers here?
And I say this with all political correctness.
I mean, it's politically correct to be totally opposed to smoking, totally opposed to tobacco, other than when you're getting tax revenue from it, and I don't.
So you tell me how many Americans have died thanks to an Indian invention versus how many Indians died because we got here.
Now, you run the numbers on this.
Where are our reparations?
I'm just saying.
So I told you to have the kids listen to this show, and you're driving around, not listening to watch some video.
Let's go to West New York, New Jersey.
And Ryan, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Ditto's Rush.
I was just calling to ask about the article on the Hill talking about Janet Napolitano wanting to expand body scanners to trains, boats, and metro.
Yeah, mass transit out there, yes.
Right.
I'm just thinking: not only is this an expansion of government, but is this possibly Democrats trying to combat unemployment?
Because obviously with that great expansion comes people that need to be hired to do it.
You mean to conduct the searches?
Right, to conduct the searches, to operate the body scanners, you know, you put it at the Lincoln Tunnel, all those kinds of things out here.
I don't think you'd have to pay these people.
I've had the rise and I frankly don't think you'd have to pay these people.
you advise or advertise what the skill set required is, you say, here's what we're looking for as we search people on trains and boats and in tunnels where it's dark, you might hell, just get the subscriber list at Craigslist.
You wouldn't have to hire anybody.
And we'll be back.
Don't go away.
It's our special Thanksgiving show today, El Rushbo, with unique takes on the holiday, primarily all true and things you've not heard or probably considered before.
We just had a caller who suggested we could solve the unemployment problem by hiring the unemployed to be the new TSA agents as we expand to buses and trains, subways, and so forth.
Last night on PBS, the Charlie Rose show, Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, appeared.
And Charlie Rose said, what will they, the terrorists, be thinking in the future?
Charlie Rose wanted to know from Janet Napolitano, what will the terrorists be thinking?
Well, I think they're going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through.
I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going onto mass transit or to trains or maritime.
So what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?
Right.
So if now the bus terminals get hit and the trains, obviously she's going to have had inside information because she knows.
Charlie Rose asked her what they're thinking and she said that now bus stations, I mean, you don't have to waste your time there.
You ever been to Port Authority bus station?
You don't need to.
It's already going on in there.
I mean, people are going to bus stations for pack downs, same-sex, otherwise, since there have been buses.
Now, you put agents in there, where are people going to go to get their reputations back?
When you catch them red-handed doing that, they're not even threats.
Be right back.
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